Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-12
The Sensations of n Msu VINO Gets Into
the embrace of ID vii Fish.


From, the New Y.,k Sun.
1--WE were lying about half a mile Off the
beach at the Barbados. Overhau ng The
sanding rigging" sad Jams G Ills, abe
seaman. when the mate ordered john Webb,
an apprenllC boy, and myself into he yaw
which had Deen cover and brought around
20 the port 81 G, that some painting m ght he
done just abait the malnmas. 1t was a Terri
bly, hot day. vii h the water very W rm amt
( The men having little energy. The paint wa
| lowered down to lis, ana while / used the
bru h the boy held the yawl ia posi- ion W,
had been at work for about u qua, ter OF al
hour when tn boy suddenly yei ed out IN
alright, and as turned TO HIM he declares
hat he had seen H horrible looking object
| pass under the boat. and on under tht
! ip. There are plenty OF strange creatures
! floating about In those waters. and patcn OF
| -saweed will sometimes ASSN me Il queer
shape. | laughed at Inc boys tears lat !,
he same time saw how pale and frightened
! h. looked.
"'Whars wanted below there?' called The
mate as h. leaned over the rail, having hearu
! Nobb's cry OF alarm.
III saw something go under the boat,
SIR
"Oh, you did. We /, if you bawl out again
/ you'li feel sOmethipg 60 under your JAG et.'
! Il began work aSai'. and HAD been at il
! only three or four minutes when the yaN
| h"aved away from the snip two or three ect.
| and at the same in tant he boy -crpamed out
again. His voice hau scarcely Teacht d my
! ears when ,omethibg flashed before ms eyes
/ something caught my arm ana pu led II down
/ and pinned it fast to my body. and in hv,
seconds more knew what had happened.
/ Il vii d~h haG luug one OF his arms ABOUT me.
! Webb was screaming al the top of his voice,
and, as got u look at him. | SAL that two OF
| the beasts feelers were clutchIng him. The
! arm OF leeer which had reached me pinned
| nv arm to my side as if in a vi e. making a
/ clean wrap around my body. aud the eN RENE
/ ED Of the feeler crrpt up along my neck and
| face. TAX of pain: never iet anything like
! it. The teeth OF a bul dog couldn't have hurt
3 III a IFfr tftt hf ifn
en-atlOn. as If live coal mad been lau on he
/ flesh. / added my yells TO those of Webb. but
| before any one calaet to the rail | was jerked
| TO my knees IN the boat and saw that the
| creature object was To pull me overheard.
| heard the boy go down aud thrash about
then three OF the men came to our assist
ance.
1.-The devil nsh had outwitted himself He
| hal gone under the h p ami fastened 10 her
| bottom or keel. aud as sCoh az ne began pull
| ing on Ms he OF course pulled the yawl close
| against the ships side. That closed the gap
and he could not pull us overheard, although
/ thlnk he would have upsei the yawl, for we
were 10th down on her starbOard sldc and she
! was almost on her beam ends when the men
Jumped down. They began to cut and sla-h
aud hack with their knives, aud after two or
three minutes they had us frce-uot OF the
arms, but OF the crca ure. We were hois Ell
| on board bowling and gro ming. with the
feeler, su biting. and they had t. be
cut from us almost by inches. Webb
| got it far WIRE than | did. as he
! n n.
! He was b ten on Que 70 {, both hands, ana
| across the brra~t, ana 1t was long Two weeks
| before ne WAS on ck again, his face sWeled
| up until o. eve Wa closed, and the poison
made me III tor many days. Wherever one OF
! { &c cups or suckers took no Il The sSin WAS en-
! rely AIKEN n. ana IL seemed as y pins had
! b,en stuck into tile raw y sh. \ taliv" o..
| tor bruugh! me some herbs with which 10 make
| a poultice. ana, though at re ievcd The pain
! a Il helped me To get around again, IL vas
/ months he ore my face was entr " well.
/ "Ihe devil fish miudei the lo-s Il his hrec
! arms for only half an hour, ut the END Of
! winch time he cutched the empty boat, half
! capsized her, a. d SWAN twice ar Und he snip
! US a defiance TO the crew. Two or three mus
! ket balls were nred into him, aud ne sank out
of sight to be seen no more during our stay !"
ats funny about Washington people 4"
! said oung man from New York TO a Wash
/ lugtonian.
"Iow do you meanYn asked the W. man.
''Wh,, everybody has a way of saying yes,
! indeed.'n
/ sH ave theyY' exclaimed the Waabirgto,-